Comment by samcheng
3 years ago
When it first came out, Chrome was much, much more performant than Firefox, and had better standards compliance than Safari. It was just a better browsing experience. V8 was a big deal performance-wise.
Firefox has since largely caught-up from a performance perspective, although there is still some functionality inconvenience.
Of course the stated attitude toward the user is night and day - I switched back to Firefox about the same time they started integrating Gmail / Google accounts into Chrome.
Another key differentiator for Chrome, when it came out, was its process isolation model. Firefox has that too now.
> When it first came out, Chrome was much, much more performant than Firefox, and had better standards compliance than Safari
When it first came out, it was almost literally Safari (well, WebKit).